Schafik Handal

Schafik Handal (14 October 1930-24 January 2006) was a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 1 February 1997 to 24 January 2006, representing the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

Biography
Schafik Handal was born on 14 October 1930 in Usulutan, El Salvador to Palestinian Christian immigrants from Bethlehem. Handal was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of El Salvador from 1973 to 1994 and formed the guerrilla Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front during the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s. In 1992, following the Chapultepec Peace Accords, the FMLN became a political party, and from 1997 to 2006 Handal represented them in the Legislative Assembly. He died on 24 January 2006 of a heart attack.